Why So Many Insurers Are Leaving Obamacare
How rejecting Medicaid and other government decisions have hurt insurance markets
One of the most common reasons critics of Obamacare say the law is “collapsing” is that insurers appear to be fleeing the Affordable Care Act’s health-insurance exchanges, or the state-based, online marketplaces where people can buy individual health-insurance policies.
The fact that one-third of counties are projected to have just one insurer on their Obamacare exchanges this year has been a popular talking point among Republicans—including President Trump—trying to gin up support for their replacement bill, the American Health Care Act.
The stat was echoed in a by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, in which he portrayed Obamacare as a house that’s on fire
